Tristan Hughes

Does it endure?

Do they both abide by it?

How does Sparta then fare once this diktat has been ordered to them?

I guess for pride's sake in one way, it's a bit humiliating because you're being told to do this and yet you still expect yourself to be the dominant power.

But does Sparta go around kind of saying like, we are on the side of the great peace kind of thing.

We're enforcing this treaty, but using that as an excuse to actually advance their own aims.

How long does this kind of Spartans triumphing themselves as being the champions of the king's peace, how long does this last before there's, dare I say, a misstep by the Spartans and they go a bit too far?

So what goes after that?

How do the Thebans respond?

Ironic as well, by the way.

But what is the secret then to Thebes' success at being able to hold out, being able to defend against these continuous smarts?

You're both laughing.

I don't know why you're laughing when I ask this question.

It's an important question.

It's a great question.

It's one of the big questions.

Why is Thebes able to hold out?

Why is it actually pretty powerful at this time?

Is it that discipline that they focus on to make them that next level?

The Persians are just watching at the sides.